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Communities in the Driver's Seat: Black Mothers Forum Microschools Raise Sustainability Questions
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Travis Pillow; Eupha Jeanne Daramola – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2023
Black Mothers Forum (BMF) was founded in 2016 to combat institutional racism, including disproportionate discipline, unrepresentative curricula, and racial bullying in Phoenix-area schools. When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted public education, the organization launched a network of microschools as outposts of this mission. These microschools were…
Descriptors: African American Family, Mothers, Small Schools, Models
Pods in Action: Black Mothers Forum. How the Black Mothers Forum Customized a Microschool Model to Better Meet the Needs of Arizona's Black Families
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Eupha Jeanne Daramola – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2022
Founded by mothers long concerned about the safety and welfare of their Black children, Black Mothers Forum (BMF) is an Arizona-based education advocacy group that responded to the COVID-19 crisis by launching two microschools for Black families in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 2021. BMF partnered with Prenda, a well-known microschool provider, but…
Descriptors: African American Family, Mothers, Small Schools, Models
Think Inside the Box
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Spencer, John – Educational Leadership, 2017
Besides "thinking outside the box," the creativity needed to solve problems often involves thinking differently about the box, finding a new approach or off-beat way to use the materials, conditions, and even constraints that one has. Spencer discusses creative constraint--what happens when a problem solver runs into barriers that make…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Barriers, Innovation
Implementing Innovation in Different Service Delivery Models
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Feldman-Adams, Deborah; Bird, Megan; Dwosh, Janice; Warner, ElizaBeth – Gifted Child Today, 2019
This article reviews recent efforts to implement the William & Mary English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum within the Paradise Valley Unified School District gifted programs. The programs include self-contained gifted, as well as content replacement programs in Title 1 and Non-Title 1 schools. Each delivery model modified the constructs of the…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Language Arts, Academically Gifted, Delivery Systems
Transformational Leadership Plans
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Aguas, Pedro P.; Zapata, Liliana Valle; Arellano, Danilsa Lorduy – World Journal of Education, 2017
Higher education institutions are aware of the need to incorporate learning-driven assessment artifacts into their doctoral programs to ensure successful leadership development. However, in attempting to integrate learning into students' future performance, it appears that there is no general agreement upon the most effective assignments. The…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Innovation, Graduate Study, Leadership Training
ASU Preparatory Academy i3 Final Evaluation Report
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Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2019
In 2013, the Arizona State University (ASU) Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant through the U.S. Department of Education. The district applied with an ambitious grant designed to innovate programming for a total of six schools: two elementary (one Kindergarten through grade 5; one Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Program Effectiveness